The Onion Girl (Gollancz S.F.)

The Onion Girl (Gollancz S.F.)

by Charlesde Lint (Author)

Synopsis

Newford: where magic lights dark streets, where myths walk in modern shapes, where humans and older beings must work to keep the whole world turning. At the centre of the entwined lives of all the Newford tales stands a young artist named Jilly Coppercorn, whose paintings capture the hidden beings that dwell in Newford's shadows. With her tangled hair, her paint-splattered jeans, a smile perpetually on her lips, she's darted in and out of the Newford tales. Now, at last, we have Jilly's own story. Behind the painter's fey charm there's a dark secret, and a past she's laboured to forget. That past is coming to claim her now, threatening all she loves. "I'm the onion girl," Jilly Coppercorn says. "Pull back the layers of my life, and you won't find anything at the core. Just a broken child. A hollow girl." She's run from the past and the truth for so long. She's very, very good at running. But life has just forced Jilly to stop.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 512
Edition: New
Publisher: Gollancz
Published: 11 Mar 2004

ISBN 10: 0575073977
ISBN 13: 9780575073975
Book Overview: Charles de Lint is Canada's best fantasist, winner of the World Fantasy Award. To read de Lint is to fall under the spell of a master storyteller, to be reminded of the greatness of life, of the beauty and majesty lurking in the shadows and empty doorways. - Quill and Quire De Lint is as engaging a stylist as Stephen King, but considerably more inventive and ambitious. - The Globe and Mail De Lint is a master of the modern urban folktale. - The Denver Post 'De Lint is a master at world building, at creating the apt image, and at making grippingly suspenseful a story in which the fate of the characters may have no cosmic significance but is vitally important to them and their closest friends. It is hard to imagine urban fantasy done with greater skill' Booklist

Author Bio
Musician and writer Charles de Lint was born in the Netherlands, but emigrated to Canada at the age of four. The most significant and prolific writer of fantasy in Canada, he is best-known for his urban fantasies set in Newford, an alternative reality Ottawa. He lives with his artist and musician wife MaryAnn in the real Ottawa, Ontario.